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Kelly B Faltermayer
1406 Richmond, #233
Houston, TX 77006
Phone: (713) 526-6681
Kelly Faltermayer was born Salvador F. Bermudez in the capital of El Salvador in 1965. He moved at the
age of 15 to Houston, Texas, where he attended and graduated from The High School for the Performing
and Visual Arts.
He placed first in the visual arts category of the MusicFest competition and was awarded a $4,000
scholarship. He was also commissioned to design and execute a mural for the Drama Department at
HSPVA during his senior year.
After graduation, he attended Otis Parsons School of Design in Los Angeles, an experience he considers
pivotal in the development of his style and techniques. After graduation, he returned to Houston, where
he has since been employed by Sun Publications as the corporate art director overseeing production of
special promotions and occasionally putting his illustrative skills to use in the form of front page features
and cartoons.
Kelly became a naturalized American citizen in 1986, thus the name change.
Although commercial art is his full-time job, he prefers to do science fiction, fantasy, and horror
illustrations -- always has, and always will.
The Illustrators of the Future contest gave him his first two published illustrations, one from the
competition and one commissioned for a second story; both illustrations appeared in the WRITERS OF
THE FUTURE, VOLUME 6 anthology (Bridge, 1990).
Kelly has illustrated for TOMORROW SPECULATIVE FICTION magazine (Algis Budrys, Ed.) since its
inception in 1993, and is the only artist to have work in every issue. He has also illustrated for
FANTASTIC WORLDS and other publications. His other areas of concentration include metal sculpture,
ceramic sculpture, jewelry, painting, fashion design, and computer graphics.
Kelly cites the works of Salvador Dali, Patrick Nagel, Erte, and Boris Vallejo as being influential in the
development of his style. The human form, male and female, is the theme around which his own work
revolves. He enjoys "the evolution of art" through the works of Rubens, Durer, Caravaggio, Goya, and
Rembrandt, to name a few. He also enjoys the socially relevant and revolutionary works by Van Gogh and
the non-conservative side of the Impressionists. Japanese artwork, with its sense of orderly design, also
influences Kelly's work.